Tanaka, Katsunori Akashi, Yukari Fukunaga, Kenji Yamamoto, Tatsuya Aierken, Yasheng Nishida, Hidetaka Long, Chun Lin Yoshino, Hiromichi Sato, Yo-Ichiro Kato, Kenji
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Molecular analysis encouraged discovery of genetic diversity and relationships of cultivated melon (Cucumis melo L.). We sequenced nine inter- and intra-genic regions of the chloroplast genome, about 5500 bp, using 60 melon accessions and six reference accessions of wild species of Cucumis to show intra-specific variation of the chloroplast genome....
Yoshioka, Yosuke Nakayama, Masayoshi Noguchi, Yuji Horie, Hideki
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Strawberry is rich in anthocyanins, which are responsible for the red color, and contains several colorless phenolic compounds. Among the colorless phenolic compounds, some, such as hydroxycinammic acid derivatives, emit blue-green fluorescence when excited with ultraviolet (UV) light. Here, we investigated the effectiveness of image analyses for e...
Okabe, Yoshihiro Ariizumi, Tohru Ezura, Hiroshi
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The dwarf tomato variety Micro-Tom is regarded as a model system for functional genomics studies in tomato. Various tomato genomic tools in the genetic background of Micro-Tom have been established, such as mutant collections, genome information and a metabolomic database. Recent advances in tomato genome sequencing have brought about a significant...
Eltayeb Habora, Mohamed Elsadig Eltayeb, Amin Elsadig Oka, Mariko Tsujimoto, Hisashi Tanaka, Kiyoshi
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Leymus mollis (Triticeae; Poaceae) is a useful genetic resource for wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) breeding via wide hybridization to introduce its chromosomes and integrate its useful traits into wheat. Leymus mollis is highly tolerant to abiotic stresses such as drought and salinity and resistant to various diseases, but the genetic mechanisms cont...
Ezura, Hiroshi
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Kusano, Miyako Fukushima, Atsushi
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As tomatoes are one of the most important vegetables in the world, improvements in the quality and yield of tomato are strongly required. For this purpose, omics approaches such as metabolomics and transcriptomics are used not only for basic research to understand relationships between important traits and metabolism but also for the development of...
Takano-Kai, Noriko Jiang, Hui Powell, Adrian McCouch, Susan Takamure, Itsuro Furuya, Naruto Doi, Kazuyuki Yoshimura, Atsushi
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GRAIN SIZE 3 (GS3) is a cloned gene that is related to seed length. Here we report the discovery of new deletion alleles at the GS3 locus, each of which confer short seed. We selected ten short seeded cultivars from a collection of 282 diverse cultivars. Sequence analysis across the GS3 gene in these ten cultivars identified three novel alleles and...
Aoki, Koh Ogata, Yoshiyuki Igarashi, Kaori Yano, Kentaro Nagasaki, Hideki Kaminuma, Eli Toyoda, Atsushi
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Completion of tomato genome sequencing project has broad impacts on genetic and genomic studies of tomato and Solanaceae plants. The reference genome sequence derived from Solanum lycopersicum cv 'Heinz 1706' serves as the firm basis for sequencing-based approaches to tomato genomics. In this article, we first present a brief summary of the genome ...
Shirasawa, Kenta Hirakawa, Hideki
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Tomato is an important crop and regarded as an experimental model of the Solanaceae family and of fruiting plants in general. To enhance breeding efficiency and advance the field of genetics, tomato has been subjected to DNA marker studies as one of the earliest targets in plants. The developed DNA markers have been applied to the construction of g...
Iwata, Hiroyoshi Hayashi, Takeshi Terakami, Shingo Takada, Norio Sawamura, Yutaka Yamamoto, Toshiya
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Although the potential of marker-assisted selection (MAS) in fruit tree breeding has been reported, bi-parental QTL mapping before MAS has hindered the introduction of MAS to fruit tree breeding programs. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are an alternative to bi-parental QTL mapping in long-lived perennials. Selection based on genomic predict...
